Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Tomas Peterson, Katarina Schenker

   Pages 1-7

3. Sweden: The Societal Setting

   • Johan R. Norberg

   Pages 9-22

4. Social Entrepreneurship in an International Context

   • Daniel Bjärsholm

   Pages 23-39

5. A Definition of Sport and Social Entrepreneurship

   • Tomas Peterson, Katarina Schenker

   Pages 41-60

6. The Cases

   • Daniel Bjärsholm, Per Gerrevall, Susanne Linnér, Tomas Peterson, Katarina Schenker

   Pages 61-73

7. Social Entrepreneurship, Sport and Democracy Development

   • Per Gerrevall, Daniel Bjärsholm, Susanne Linnér

   Pages 75-97

8. Ethics in Researching Sport and Social Entrepreneurship

   • Daniel Bjärsholm, Per Gerrevall, Susanne Linnér, Tomas Peterson, Katarina Schenker

   Pages 99-111

9. A Methodological Tool for Researching Sport and Social Entrepreneurship

   • Daniel Bjärsholm, Per Gerrevall, Susanne Linnér, Johan R. Norberg, Tomas Peterson, Katarina Schenker

   Pages 113-122

10. Back Matter

    Pages 123-126

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This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date. It explores how this approach in sport could also be used to address wider socio-political issues, including economic, political, cultural and pedagogical in European society.

Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden explores different social entrepreneurship projects which have created new forms of activity and reached groups of children and young people previously disengaged in sport. The authors also highlight the growing momentum of this kind of entrepreneurship in Sweden after a period of societal upheaval that has resulted in a blurring of social borders and the founding of new organisational forms.

This book contributes to the formation of a new field of research, involving theoretical and empirical work on the characteristics and possibilities of social entrepreneurship in relation to sport. 

• Political reform
• Scandinavia
• Voluntary organisations
• Democratic values
• Venture capitalism
• Social Entrepreneurship

“It is immensely exciting to see that Peterson and Schenker (eds.) have put together this anthology on social entrepreneurship in Swedish sport. … an anthology such as Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden is both important and timely. … it represents a useful and meaningful step in the conceptual development of social entrepreneurship in sport contexts, and the authors do this brilliantly with the use of their seven cases of social entrepreneurship and sport in Sweden.” (Anne Tjønndal, idrottsforum.org, September, 2018)

• Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

  Tomas Peterson

• Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

  Katarina Schenker

Tomas Peterson is Senior Professor at Malmö University, Sweden, and Professor II at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His research areas include sport and social entrepreneurship, the professionalization of Swedish football, and sport politics.

Katarina Schenker is Senior Lecturer in Sport Sciences at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research interests concern the inclusion and exclusion of children and youth in physical education and health, and in the state-funded Swedish sports movement.

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